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Saturday, June 16, 2012

Hollaback! our partner organization is built on using mobile technologies to stop street harassment. Their mission states:

Hollaback! is a movement dedicated to ending street harassment
using mobile technology. Street harassment is one of the most pervasive
forms of gender-based violence and one of the least legislated against... The explosion of mobile technology has given us an unprecedented opportunity to end street harassment—and with it, the opportunity to take on one of the final new frontiers for women’s rights around the world.

By collecting women and LGBTQ folks’ stories and pictures in a safe
and share-able way with our very own mobile phone applications, Hollaback! is creating a crowd-sourced initiative
to end street harassment. Hollaback! breaks the silence that has
perpetuated sexual violence internationally, asserts that any and all
gender-based violence is unacceptable, and creates a world where we have
an option—and, more importantly—a response.

Stop-and-Frisk App Users on the Rise

The Android tool for recording police wrongdoing has taken off since its release last week.

Ever witnessed what appeared to be police harassment and wished that
you could do something about it? Now you can. On June 6 the New York
Civil Liberties Union rolled out its Stop and Frisk Watch smartphone app, a tool that lets bystanders record and report unlawful police encounters.

Since its debut, more than 75,000 people have downloaded it, and
thousands of videos have been submitted. "Our staff is monitoring the
videos as they come in," NYCLU spokeswoman Jennifer Carnig told The Root.
The clips will then become an active part of the organization's
campaign to end stop and frisk -- the policy in which New York City
police can interrogate and search residents without cause. The images
will be included in the group's public-education, communications and
lobbying efforts and may also be used to litigate cases against
officers.

"The NYPD tells New Yorkers that if they see something, say
something, and the NYCLU agrees," explains Carnig, whose group is
co-organizing a silent march on Sunday
to protest stop and frisk. "If people see police misconduct or an
inappropriate stop and frisk, we want them to have the tools to say
something about it."